Welp, my Basil seedlings all sprouted...seems if the sprouts survive, there will be about 15 plants. And that isn't including the African Blue Basil, andarious others we may gifted we. So far we have Sweet Basil, Napolitan Basil and Lime Basil. I may take a Thai Basil as friend is offering if noone else takes it.
I bought some perennials for the herb bed yesterday - Chervil, Salad Burnet, Lemon Thyme. The day before I bought some Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Spearmint and Lavendar. The annuals are all in pots or will be, the perennials will be planted in the herb bed, probably Sunday if weather is nice.
We are growing some veggies from seed and have planted some of them in a mini greenhouse made of Pvc and thick plastic per suggestion of Mel Batholomew in All New Square Foot Gardening :) Other veggies (including the Basil) are still too wee to be planted so they will stay inside under the lights for the mean time. However, learned not to plant fast growing plants such as beans inside too early. They may have kinked while we were on vacation and not sure they will survive.
The corn is growing nicely, as is some of the squash. Hope to do a Three Sisters with the corn, beans (will sprout new ones) and squash as well as cucumbers. All 4 are great compnaion plants for each other. Crossing fingers, this will be the first time I try this!
Hurried out and bought some Lowbush North Country, St. Cloud, and Lowbush Michigan Blueberry plants before they sold out. Blueberry plants sell out quickly in my neck of the woods. Hope to plant them Sunday if weather permits and after I finish readying their beds for them. First time for these as well so hoping for the best!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Civil War Show
We just got back from selling at a Civil War show in Va. Ah, such fun! We bought a goodly number of rare books on the Civil War from various folks while there. Even I bought quite a number for my folks with interests in the medieval and renaissance periods!
While in Virginia and North Carolina, we visited Fort Branch, and Petersburg to see The Crater. Both were very awe inspiring. Fort Branch was hidden in the back of nowhere and away from the tourists, which was quite nice. It was a Confederate earthen fort overlooking a river with slots where the cannons were placed. After a time the fort was abandoned and the cannons heaved in the river where they were found in 1972 and restored. We explored the fort and earthenworks and were dumbstruck by the amount of work it took to build it - unfortunately most of the work probably was slave labor.
The Crater was in the Petersburgh Battlefield area and just the opposite. It was well kept up and attended to and well trafficked by tourists altho it is still early in the tourist season. The Crater was dug by Pennsylvania coal miners and explosives placed to break through Confederate lines there. They did a very good job, however the endeavor was destroyed by bureaucracy and stupid decisions. There was a company of black soldiers that was trained to go through the Confederate lines but at the last minute were withdrawn and replaced by white soldiers with no training in the mission. And as a result when the Crater blew, the soldiers ran into it instead on the edges of it - effectively becoming fish in a barrel for the Confederate sharpshooters.
Each year we do the Civil War Show, usually in Chantilly but for the next 5 years will be in Fredericksburg, we try to explore Civil War places of interest or battlefields.
While in Virginia and North Carolina, we visited Fort Branch, and Petersburg to see The Crater. Both were very awe inspiring. Fort Branch was hidden in the back of nowhere and away from the tourists, which was quite nice. It was a Confederate earthen fort overlooking a river with slots where the cannons were placed. After a time the fort was abandoned and the cannons heaved in the river where they were found in 1972 and restored. We explored the fort and earthenworks and were dumbstruck by the amount of work it took to build it - unfortunately most of the work probably was slave labor.
The Crater was in the Petersburgh Battlefield area and just the opposite. It was well kept up and attended to and well trafficked by tourists altho it is still early in the tourist season. The Crater was dug by Pennsylvania coal miners and explosives placed to break through Confederate lines there. They did a very good job, however the endeavor was destroyed by bureaucracy and stupid decisions. There was a company of black soldiers that was trained to go through the Confederate lines but at the last minute were withdrawn and replaced by white soldiers with no training in the mission. And as a result when the Crater blew, the soldiers ran into it instead on the edges of it - effectively becoming fish in a barrel for the Confederate sharpshooters.
Each year we do the Civil War Show, usually in Chantilly but for the next 5 years will be in Fredericksburg, we try to explore Civil War places of interest or battlefields.
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